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1 WIRE FRUIT: JARTASTENING. No. 314,332. Patented Mar, 24, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT O FICE.

WILLIAM F. HANNES, OF OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA.

WiRE FRUIT-JAR FASTENING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 3142.332, dated March 24, 1885.

Application filed August 14,1884.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HANNES, of the city of Oakland, in the county of Alameda and State of California, have invented an Improved Fastening for Covers of Fruit- Jars, of which the following specification isa full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and effective fastening for the covers of fruit-jars and other covers and stoppers; and it consists in certain novelconstrue tion and combination of parts for the purpose, as hereinafter described.

Referring to the drawings that accompany and form a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan View of a jar-top with my device applied. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of thejar and a section of the cap with my fastener thereon in an open position. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the jar and top or cap with my fastener applied closing the jar, a part of the rim of the cap or top being broken away to show the application of my fastener.

A represents the upper portion or neck of a wide-mouth bottle or jar, and B the cover or top to cover and seal or tightly close the opening.

Around the neck of the bottle or jar is placed aring or coil of stout ,wire, D,to which at opposite sides are attached two wire arms, E E, of suitable length to extend over and across the top of the cover, and also to overlap each other. the ring D by means of an eye, (Z, or several turns of the end around the ring -wire, and at the outer or free end a hook, O, is formed on each. While thus permanently attached to the ring D, and by this means confined on the These wires are attached to (N0 model.)

neck of the bottle or jar, these wires are free to be turned up and be brought over from opposite directions diametrically across the cover 13; or when the bottle or jar is opened they jar, these wires are first brought over across the top of the cover and closely in line with each other, and with their ends lapping past each other, and these ends are then fastened and held firmly down by springing thehooked end of one wire under the other wire. The stiff and also springing quality of the wires is then sufficient tokeep them hooked and cause them to lie closely against the top of the cover and hold it firmly down upon the bottle or jar.

. ring D, surrounding the neck,and the attach ed wire arms E E, permanently connected to the ring D, and having the hooked ends 0 (l, the said wires being of suitable length to extend over the cover of the jar and overlap each other, substantially as described.

WM. F. HANNES. [L. s.] In presence of- R. F. BRIDEWELL, J. W. FOARD. 

